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Worldwide food recall patterns over an eleven month period: A country perspective

Tamás Nepusz1,2, Andrea Petróczi2* and Declan P Naughton2

Author Affiliations

1 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Measurement and Information Systems, H-1521 Budapest, P.O. Box 91, Hungary

2 School of Life Sciences, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, London, KT1 2EE, UK

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BMC Public Health 2008, 8:308 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-308

Published: 10 September 2008

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Additional file 1:

Weighted and unweighted in-degree (transgressor) and out-degree (detector) for all countries. The data show weighted and unweighted directional degrees for all 117 countries, in alphabetical order by country codes.

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Definition of modularity and k-core. The file provides definitions for the two structural properties (modularity and k-core) used in this paper to describe the food recall pattern observed between January and November 2007.

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